Mexico to decriminalize pot, coke, and heroin

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue May 02, 2006 5:05 pm

Denny wrote:boost tourism?

No doubt.

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue May 02, 2006 5:45 pm

Denny wrote:boost tourism?

I don't know that it did that much good for the Dutch economy.

Let's face it, Mexico can't afford drugs in the quantity and style that the American market can. And yes, I am saying that the criminals are the drug users in the USA. They are the ones creating the market that draws the criminals that creates the traffic. If Americans want the drug traffic to end stop buying the stuff!

If someone living in the Stone Age in some third-world backwater country finds they can make a living shipping dope to the US, they are bound to try it. Clearly the billions of dollars the US govt has thrown at stemming the flow from these countries is not working. And why not? Because the American public keeps buying more of any drug they can get their hands on.

Either criminalize it in the US and prosecute to the point that usage stops, or decriminalize it and quit victimizing people in the third world for trying to make a living.

djm

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Tue May 02, 2006 7:05 pm

Nanohedron wrote:
Denny wrote:boost tourism?
No doubt.

No longer will it be Mexicans flooding into California, but Californians flooding into Mexico.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:20 am

Flying Cement wrote:pot, coke, and heroin

Pot:
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Coke:
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Heroine:
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Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Wed May 03, 2006 4:02 am

I'm packin my bags even as I type this, ummmm, oh there they are... wouldn't do to forget my underwear...wooo hooo, Mexico here I come...

rh · Post by rh » Wed May 03, 2006 6:17 am

djm wrote:Either criminalize it in the US and prosecute to the point that usage stops, or decriminalize it and quit victimizing people in the third world for trying to make a living.

With zero tolerance policies and mandatory minimum sentencing we HAVE criminalized casual use in the USA. As a result, prisons are full to bursting, the criminal justice system is backlogged for years and a lot of hardened criminals end their sentences early because the state is busy shoving in 18 year old black kids who got caught with a nickel bag in their sock.

We're starting to see more local (mostly urban) jurisdictions that are turning to decriminalizing marijuana because of the strain on the system.

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Wed May 03, 2006 6:31 am

The "war on drugs". What a ridiculous joke.

First of all demand will not stop just because you arrest some of the big suppliers. There will just be new suppliers. People supply drugs because user want drugs, not the other way around.

Second, legalize pot.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Wed May 03, 2006 9:40 am

Amsterdam in the 1970s had a huge drug problem, with corrollaries of crime, disease, unmonitored prositution. After the legalization of basically personal and recreational drug use, together with programs for the controlled distribution of heroine substitutes to addicts, the drug-related problems were significantly reduced. Overall, following legalization, drug use declined steadily.

We should also remember that marihuana in the US was criminalized in order to subsidize the plastics industry, which wanted to be shot of the competition from hemp, and not because of the dangers inherent in drug use. Hemp is one of the most useful and versatile crops, and it is silly that we don't use it more.

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